Sharon Emanuelli is an independent art historian and copy editor. She primarily edits nonfiction arts and humanities manuscripts and cultural subjects in qualitative social sciences. In art history, her focus has been on American art, especially post-World War II California art and twentieth-century craft media. She has held senior curatorial and administrative positions at the Craft and Folk Art Museum (now Craft Contemporary), Los Angeles; the Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY; and other arts organizations. She managed a long-term collecting project for the West Coast Regional Center of the Smithsonian’s Archives of American Art. In addition, she has organized major visual and performing arts festivals and fundraising events, and consulted on arts enrichment programs for special-needs schools. Her independent curatorial, research, oral history, and writing projects have been conducted for organizations that include the American Craft Museum (now Museum of Arts and Design); CAFAM/Craft Contemporary; Newport Harbor Art Museum (now Orange County Museum of Art); Laguna Art Museum; ArtTable, Inc.; Nestle USA Collection; [USC] Pacific Asia Museum; CSUN Art Galleries; Smithsonian’s Archives of American Art; Craft in America; and J. Paul Getty Trust Publications.
She holds an MA in Fine Art with added studies in Art History from California State University, Northridge (CSUN), and an AB cum laude in Art with an English and Comparative Literature minor from Occidental College, where she currently serves on the Board of Governors. Professional memberships include ArtTable, Inc., Editorial Freelancers Association (EFA), ACES: The Society for Editing, and the Chartered Institute of Editing and Proofreading (CIEP).
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